Quotes of: Modern-war Keyword

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Kevin Powers

Sometimes there is a world war between heart and your mind.

Life

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

Andrea Mitchell

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Bernard Baruch

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

Bill Gates

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

Bernard Law Montgomery

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

Christopher Shays

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

Douglas Hurd

It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

Eason Jordan

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

George W. Bush

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

Hideo Kojima

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Jon Voight

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Kevin Powers

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

Matt Taibbi

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Oriana Fallaci

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Ralph Peters

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Ron Paul

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.

Subcomandante Marcos

Charles: I just came home to say goodbye to my wife and children. Grace: Where are you going? Charles: To the front. Grace: I thought the war was over. Charles: The war is not over. Grace: You're not going. You left us once already. YOU CAN'T GO! Why...

The Others

No, we love war. War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment. “It's the mark of a very, very young soul,” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.” We have alway...

Haunted

The doctor who heads the trauma unit [at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany] wants to tell a happy story, too. He tells me that war is good for civilian medicine. I've read reports that make the same point: in peacetime, the cutting edge of...

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story